Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNELove was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
More John Donne Quotes
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We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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No man is an island unto himself.
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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
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I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though ‘Tis got by chance, ‘Tis kept by art.
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In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.
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If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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In heaven it is always autumn.
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How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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I am a little world made cunningly.
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